We need honest leadership for real prosperity

Civil society groups picket along Parliament Road, Nairobi, on December 28, 2023. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Honesty and courage alone can save our wounded and disunited country. We need courage to speak the truth - including painful truths that unsettle not only our foes but also our friends and, mostly, ourselves.

We need the honesty and courage to honour the contributions of the great men and women who have come before us, those who articulated and defended true principles of justice and the common good, built or helped to preserve worthy institutions, and modelled important virtues.